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1.1 Birth
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2.4- APGAR
When evaluating Nicolai's APGAR for the first test, I would assume a rank of 2 for respiratory, muscle, reflex, and color. I do not know wat his heart rate was, but due to his color and volume of cries I would assume his heart rate was over 100 earning him a ranking of 2. After ten minutes, I see no changes so I would still give the same rating. -
1.2 Theories
My sister was diagnosed with cancer. According to Erikson, I would have skipped a few stages in my development. Since I was forced to become independant and play alone at a very young age, while coming to terms with mortality. He belives that skipping stages can disrupt progess in personality development and other domains. -
4.2- First Word
My first word was "balloon", this is a dynamic object label which is one of the kinds that commonly occurs. This also would have been a familiar object for me since my room was decorated with balloons. -
7.2- Exosystem
My mother grew up helping with the chores, while her brother did not. When it came time for my sister and I to help with chores, my mother split the chores equally so as not to make it feel like we were being treated unfairly. -
7.1- Parental Strategies
My parents displayed efficacy when we would go shopping. My mother would inform me and my sister that we were not allowed to grab or ask for items that we did not need. She would explain it to us, and enforce the rule. We learned proper behavior in stores and public places. -
6.1- Self Conscious Emotions
An expression of guilt is a self-conscious emotion. I would have felt guilt when I upset one of my family members and that would spur me to try and apologize and mend the relationship. This would help me meet my needs of a healthy relationship with my family. -
7.4- Friendship
As a child, my sister was one of my best friends. We would often engage in cooperative and social pretend play. Often times we would use cardboard boxes for many props. Social pretend play was a large part of our interactions, often using simple toys for much more complicated games. -
2.1- Passive Gene Environment Correlation
Mother played piano, provided an environment for music appreciation and to pass along the talent of playing the piano to her daughters. -
4.1- Memory
One of my earliest memories is of playing with plastic dinosaurs when I was in preschool. I think this fits in with the idea that until a child learns to verbalize their thoughts, they are stored in a different form. By the time I was playing with those toys, I was talking and reading, so I was able to store my thoughts using verbal cues. -
8.2- School Transitions
When I started at Ohlone Elementary, I brought some entry level skills, such as reading. I was quite a proficient reader, thanks to my sister teaching me. However, I was also greatly lacking in entry-level social skills, and it took me over a year to make friends. -
8.1- Children and Television
My family would watch Pride and Prejudice, and since I was very young the plot was too complicated for me. I would have been unable to grasp the explicit content of the plot. In fact I know it was years before I even knew what that movie was about. -
1.3 Methods
A study with 5 year olds should be conducted so as not to intimidate them. Using a younger researcher would be good, or using puppets to communicate. Ensuring that the test questions are not going to confusing the children is also important. Also asking the same question using differnet wording could help weed out inconsistenties in answers. -
6.2- Self control
As a child I had very little self control when it came to candy and other sweets. While I was limited in the amount of Halloween candy I could keep, and how much I could eat per day, I would always hit that max. My sister was much more controlled than I was and would still have all her candy months later. -
3.1- Preoperational Magnetism
I would tell the kids that the north and south poles of the magnet like to stick to other opposite poles. They don't like to stick to poles that are the same. -
2.2- Active Gene Environment Correlation
As a child I had an interest in art, and my teachers encouraged this by giving me projects to continue and further explore my creativity. -
3.2 Concrete Magnetism
At this stage, and explaination can be given that there is a force called "magnetism" that, like gravity pulls stuff together. However magnetism will only work for magnetized objects which are made of certian metals. The magetic force creates a north and south pole, which will attract an opposire pole and repel the same pole. -
7.3- Crowds and Cliques
In high school I was part of a group of kids who loved Japanese anime. We would be considered a clique focused on watching anime and drawing pictures. The larger crowd we would have been part of would be a "geek" crowd, of people who like anime, science fiction, and fantasy. -
2.3- Evocative Gene Environment Correlation
Due to job stresses requiring both my parents to work longer hours, and my sister being away at college, I found myself needing to provide my own meals. Having eaten ramen for the first year of high school, I found it necessary to explore and diversify meals on my own. I have become quite proficient in cooking since then. -
3.3- Personal Fable
I was very idealistic in high school. I would have to say that my personal fable was me going to college as a physics major, graduating, getting a PhD and becoming a researcher at SLAC or perhaps CERN or even KEK in Japan. This is formal operational becaue I was able to think far ahead and plan for a future, I was also very idealistic in my thoughts and believed that I could do anything as an unstoppable force, much like most teenagers. -
6.3- Forclosure
I had decided what I would be studying in college, and what my furture career would be. I was fully commited to it, and was certian of the outcome. -
6.4- Moratorium
Currently, I am not as sure of what I want to do. It looks as though my original plans will not work, and now I must find a new path.
